Sardine or other can cover.



A. H. BOYSEN.

E 0R OTHE I v I Y APPLICATION mu) MAY2.19IB. L3g92gy I Patented Apr. 29,1919,

SINE OR OTHER CAN COVER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 29, 1219..

Application filed May 2, 1918. Serial No. 232,058.

To all an hom it may concern Be it known that I, ALBERT H. BOYSEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Bufialo, in the county of Erie and State of New York, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sardine or other Can Covers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a sardine or other can cover which is adapted to be removed with a key, and when completely removed to form an appliance by which the contents may be taken from the can.

In the drawings Figure 1 is a perspective of the can; Fig. 2 is a perspective of the can with the cover partially removed; Fig. 3 is a view of the instrument, formed by rolling the cover around the key in the operation of removing the cover, wherewith the contents of the can may be removed.

In the drawings I have shown my invention embodied in a sardine can of conventional form, A representing the body of the can and B the cover thereof. At 1 is shown the usual tab or ear attached to the cover and adapted to be engaged in the usual manner by a key, rotation of which strips the cover from the body of the can. This car is shown at one corner of the can. At an opposite point distant from the ear 1 there is an instrument 2 preferably formed integral with the cover and removable with it. This instrument I have shown in the form of a two tined fork, turned down against the body of the can when in normal position but adapted to be bent out so as to be substantially in the plane of the cover, I have shown the fork 2 located at one corner of the can at the end of the long edge thereof at the other end of which the key engaging ear 1 is located, this being the most advantageous position for my urposes.

In use the fork member 2 is rst bent outward into the plane of the cover and the ear 1 is engaged by the key, the usual form of which has a slot or similar engaging means into which the ear may project. The key is then rotated thereby rolling the cover around it and stripping it from the can body. When the cover has been completely removed it forms an instrument as illustrated in Fig. 3 having thewfork 2 at one extremity which may then be conveniently used for removing the contents of the can, and takes the place of a separate instrument. Thus every can supplies a ready means whereby its contents may be removed, and after use the instrument will be thrown away.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is:

1. In combination, a can having a cover adapted to be rolled into cylindical form and thereby removed from the can and tines formed integrally upon the cover at one corner thereof and extending beyond one end of the cover when the cover is rolled into cylindrical form whereby to serve as a fork.

2. In a can having a cover adapted to be rolled into cylindrical form and removed by a key engageable upon a lug formed at one corner of the cover; tines formed on the cover at one corner thereof and extending beyond one end of the cylinder formed by the cover when the cover is rolled in its removal from the can.

3. A can cover of the type provided at one corner with a lug engageable by a key, the cover being adapted to be rolled into cylindrical form upon said key as a core in the removal of the cover from the can, having formed thereon at another corner spaced tines normally disposed against one side of the can and movable to extend in the same plane as the cover whereby said tines will extend beyond one end of the rolled cover when the cover is removed whereby to serve as a fork.

ALBERT HENRY BOYSEN.

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